Teacher wanting digital scans of all my prints.

Okay, so I'm in a black and white photography class at my community college.

Along with turning in our prints for final project (we get prints back), my teacher wants us all to scan our work and give him a CD with all our work on it. He also said to make a copy, because he won't be giving it back.

....I have no idea why he wants copies of everyones work.

Should I watermark them in Photoshop to be safe?

-Ava

Tags: copyright, photoshop, watermark

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Permalink Reply by nathan mccreery on May 12, 2010 at 7:26pm

Very simple. If he has a copy of your work he'll be able to tell if, in the future, someone is using you negs to make their prints. That is actually quite common. I've had individuals, notice I didn't say students who obtained the work of students in past classes, re-mounted the work and turned it in as theirs. I would be startled if he is making prints of them for personal use since to do so would violate copyright law, would be plagiarism on his part, and would probably get his rosy red rear end fired. If your really concerned that he may try to abscond with your work make the file size very small, a 5x7 at 150 dpi. It'll look fine on the screen but prints will royally suck.